Okahu Bay – Sailing Sunday

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Okahu Bay ?- Sailing Sunday
photo from ex Mac Taylor Collection

The above photo shows a collection of yachts being rigged  on Auckland’s Waitemata waterfront, my guess on the location would be Orakei / Okahu Bay . Anyone able to ID the class /division of the nearest yacht & the location?

Check into ww tomorrow – we will be visiting a boat shed for a sneak peek at a restoration of a special boat…………

Input from Robin Elliott

Ken is right with Hobson Bay I think, from the look of the number of moored boats out there.
The Hobson Bay boat sheds were completed in November 1939 and the wave screen he mentioned in front of them was added a few weeks later.
The main wave break across Okahu and Hobson bays, bits of which are still standing, was not added until the April/May1940.

Unless the angle is deceptive, I’m guessing the photo has been taken just before the short wave break was completed in front of the boatsheds.

The boats are mullet boats, probably 26’s from the number of crew .

It’s not Regatta Day 1940 because that was a howling gale.
My guess is that it’s Opening Day 25 November 1939 which was described as a perfect full sail breeze from the north east. Eight clubs combined for the day and had a jolly good time. 100 yachts took part. Racing started off Kings Wharf

 

 

Woodys Trip Report

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Woodys Trip Report

photos from Harold Kidd

If you have noticed that HDK has been missing in action from ww for a few weeks that is because he is to use that old fashioned term ‘On-leave’. But as you would expect, never far from the water.

I received the above photos from a visit to Beer in East Devon on the Jurassic coastline.

The yacht club sign (Beer Sailing Club) would need to be welded to the gate, as I would imagine its a sort after ‘souvenir’. The local fishing fleet look very fit for purpose i.e. salty looking. Crabs must be a feature on the local menu.

Now Harold’s a wee bit of a collector, read – understatement of the year 🙂 & even traveling can not keep his hand in his pocket –  just how he is going to get the 1/16 model of a Vosper 45 footer he bought home in one piece is beyond me. And I’m sure there will be more before the trip ends.

Read more about the yacht club here   http://www.beersailingclub.co.uk/index.html

Kirikiriroa

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KIRIKIRIROA
photos by Ken Ricketts

The above photos show Kirikiriroa recently hauled out at Gulf Harbour, her life ring says Port Fitzroy. I took a great photo of her a few years ago & posted it on the CYA forum but using the CYA search section turns up zero. All I can recall from memory is she that does reside at Great Barrier Island.
I get a zero in my photo files so possibly there has been a name change & that is throwing the search out.

Who can tell us more about her, in the water she is a very salty looking wee ship & rings a lot of my bells 🙂

14-05-2016 Update from Judith Wallath
While on a summer cruise (3 years ago) Judith & Bob took the below photo of Kirikiriroa at Kaiarara, Port Fitzroy. She was built for Dick Anderson in the late 1970’s for servicing the mussel farm. Judith doesn’t know when Con Flinn  bought her, but as far as she knows he still owns her and moors near Orama in the vicinity of Nagles Cove.  Con used to collect from the rubbish barge, but that has been phased out.
Judith pointed out that in the book ‘Tales from Great Barrier lsland’ – it refers to Con FLINN – & she believes this to be the correct spelling.

Kirikiriroa at Fitzroy

13-05-2019 Update – Hauled out at Gulf Harbour. (photos ex Ken Ricketts)

Aqualeda

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photos & details ex Graham Jefferys. edited by Alan H

Last month I asked on ww if any of the Southern woodys knew the history of Aqualeda. Yesterday I achieved an email from her owner Graham Jefferys who advised he had just sold Aqualeda after the privilege of owning her for 13.5 years.
Graham commented that she will be in good hands, the new owner has been in boats all his life & is known for maintaining any boats he has owned. She will be staying in Nelson.

Graham was able to research the Aqualeda’s history & was fortunate enough to have meet the youngest son of her builder, George English, the son Noel was 82 years old at the time. Noel had a raft of information, including photos of the Aqualeda’s construction, and it was Noel, as a cabinet maker, who fitted the cabin out.
Graham had been made aware it was George English who built her by Eric Wilkes, whom he entertained along with his wife at his Picton home some 12 years ago and shared many a tale of his pleasure in owning this lovely boat. Both Eric & Noel visited the Aqualeda at the Nelson Marina about 10 years ago.

Graham sent me a selection of photos of Aqualeda during construction, launching & later years, the colour photo shows Noel English [son of the builder] & his wife alongside Aqualeda.

Photos of Aqualeda as she is today can be viewed here  https://waitematawoodys.com/2016/03/17/aqualeda/

Mystery Launch Quiz

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Mystery Launch Quiz
Win a copy of Robert Brooke’s book – ‘Beautiful Boats’

Ok woodys the first woody that can supply the boat name, designer, builder & year of launch will win a copy of Robert’s just released book ‘ Beautiful Boats’. The first reply in the ww comments section with all 4 answers correct – wins.

Robert has been collecting classic yacht designs for over 50 years, amongst his collection is work from our most talented & recognized designers – Arch Logan, Chas Bailey, Charlie & Alex Collings, Colin Wild, Bert Woolacott, Bob Stewart, Des Townson, Alan Wright & Robert’s father – John Brooke.
From his collection Robert has chosen 50 & redrawn each design, tracing off the original drawings to present them in a similar format. To add to the wow factor, Robert used the drawing equipment & ships curves that were once used by either Arch Logan, Charlie & Alex Collings or his father.

The 105 page, A4 size book allocates 2 pages to each vessel with specs & photo/s on the left & the drawings – hull lines, profile, half breadths, sections, diagonals & sail plan on the right hand page (refer Rainbow drawing example below). Its a must have in all serious woodys library.

Robert has very generously donated 4 copies of the book to waitematawoodys so over the next few weeks I will be giving them away as prizes. In addition I also have a framed 380 x 300 rendered copy of one of the Beautiful Boats. I have not decided yet how this will be ‘won’, details soon.

There are thousands of ww followers out there so do not get your hopes up on winning a copy 🙂 I would suggest you visit Boat Books at 22 Westhaven Drive, Westhaven, Auckland & grab a copy for yourself, cost is $60. For out of towners or those who refer the web – copies are available on line at  https://www.boatbooks.co.nz/
Its a very limited print run & Boat Books are the sole outlet. Boat Books also have framed copies of the prints for sale – David Glen was one of the first to race in & buy a print of his Rainbow.

Cover, Tawera

Rainbow

A tour of the waterfront

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A tour of the waterfront

After the decision on Sunday to pull the pin on racing, David Glen took Rainbow for a wee cruise around the waterfront docks to check out the talent. Below is a pot-pourri of vessels – some classic, some wood, some glass & some very exotic.

Enjoy the cruise, we did 🙂

Rainbow
Frances
Wairiki
Pursuit
Corinthia
Orin II
Thelma
Ethol
Jonquil
Jonquil
Rainbow crew
A very tight fit
Marksman
Marksman
RAYC

 

Sea Devil was hauled out at the hard stand for some TLC, if she was mine I would be taking the power plane to those anti-roll bilge fins. Very agricultural, the ones on my Raindance were similar & post some feathering / shaping the drag effect was noticeably reduced.

Patricia

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I arrived at Orakei Marina yesterday morning a little early so wandered over to the Okahu Bay haul out area & spied Patricia in the travel-lift slings so wandered over & when up close got a very big shock, something very ugly has happened to her. Scroll down……………… remember click photos to enlarge.
And fyi – no sailing on Rainbow yesterday, zip wind so we motored to the start line, mooched around, said hi to the other boats doing the same & then had a crew vote – 100% hands up for a cup of tea & chocolate cake back at the marina 🙂 Will have to wait for another day for that sail. We zig zagged around Westhaven checking out a few classics & the odd super yacht – will post on Tuesday.

Can anyone advise what happened to her & what the plan is for her?. She was obviously a very well loved classic & deserves to be restored, fingers crossed.

And folks, what is the go with these guys – do they have an exemption to the 12 knt. limit ?

Input from Robin Elliott

Patricia was a very early H28, built by Phil Barton in 1953 and registered as F-89, Owner S.S. Thorington.
In the mid 1950’s the F’s and E’s were re-jigged and Patricia came out of it as E-89.
Subsequent owners were:
J.N. Wrightson 1957/59+?; O.P. Martinengo 1960?/61; R. Thode 1961+?; G.J. Stern 1962/66; C.J. alexander & J.R. Court 1966/73+? (Still Registered as Owner NZYF 1978);
No registered owners after 1978.

Her NZYF number is/was 489

AYMBA reg card says blt 1953
SS Aug 1962: Sloop rigged H28; Martinengo’s Patricia caused many upsets with her racing performances
SS Nov 1962: Back racing with RAYC again.
SS Apr 1966: Entered Balokovic Cup with RAYC.

Registered dims as at 1957:
28’x 23’6″x 8’9″x 3’9″, 349 sqft sloop, 3350 lb outside, 5cwt inside. 220 sq ft  sloop 8 hp stuart turner 1961

RAYC: Henry Slyfield Cup 1960
AAR: Hcap 1961, Moana Cup 1968

For sale on TradeMe Feb 2012: $30000

Not currently registered with YNZ

Input from Neil Chalmers
Greg Parkinson , a contemporary of Flap Martinego told me how in the early 1960’s Flap had a headsail made ( probably by ‘Sails &Covers’ ) for Patricia from the new fangled material – Terylene ( dacron) .. Greg and Flap had always had cotton sails. A Terylene sail in those days was real state of the art . They couldn’t wait to try it out , so after work they headed out of Westhaven in Patricia .The crackle and noise of the new sail and extra speed is still remembered by Greg. !!

Input from James Mortimer
Patricia is owned by Dave Palmer. He is a long time member of the CYA.
She broke her mooring in the big NE’er of late Feb, and founded on the rocks adjacent to Tamaki Drive.
Dave wrote to me and told me it has been an extremely difficult incident for him to come to terms with having just spent six months and hundreds of man hours restoring her to reflect the appearance expected of such a classic. It was a sad ending for a yacht with such a colourful history.

Mystery Yacht – Sailing Sunday

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Mystery Yacht – Sailing Sunday
photo ex Max Pike ex Auckland Weekly News (23 April 1930)

I’m sure the stick & rag woodys will be able to ID the above yacht, the only info I had was the caption which was something like ‘yacht off Freemans Bay preparing for race’.

Speaking of races I’m venturing over to the dark side today & crewing on Rainbow in the Ponsonby Cruising Club’s Vintage & Veterans race. Hopefully we will get some wind, I have been the kiss of death weather wise when aboard other classic yachts 🙂

Mystery Launches & Location

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Mystery Launches & Location
photo ex Nathan Herbert

The above photo is dated 1927 & show an amazing collection of launches. The challenge today is what’s the location, the reason for the gathering & how many can we name?
On my estimate I can count 38 people on the ‘dark’ launch in the foreground, the Harbour Master compliance nazi’s would wet themselves these days if they saw that, & no sign of any life-rails 🙂
This launch is sporting the #6 on her & the passengers have a very high % of females on board which makes the occasion very interesting, I look forward to the replies.

Manuroa

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MANUROA
photo ex Jeff Norris
Jeff sent in the above photo of the Manuroa which is berthed next to him at  Westpark, thats now  called Hobsonville Marina. Jeff was wondering if any of the woodys knew any of her history. She looks like she may have been a work boat originally.
SomeoneManuroa was very economical when they cut the plywood sheets i.e. not a lot of wastage, I think I can see where the ‘bridge-decker’ cut outs were used 😉

So woodys can we help Jeff out?